Taizé Worship
Visitors often speak of the beauty of the worship and the ease with which all present take part.
We will be holding Taizé style service at High Street at 6pm on Sunday 16 July. But what is Taizé?
In August 1940 Brother Roger, aged 25 settled alone in Taize. It was wartime, and he wanted first of all to help people going through difficulties. He began to offer hospitality to refugees, Jews in particular. He intended to create a community that would be a ‘parable of communion’; a concrete sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and separated peoples. After 2 years, his first brothers joined him.
Today the community numbers more than 100 brothers, Catholics and of different Protestant backgrounds, from 25 different countries. Small groups of brothers live among the poor in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since the end of the 1950s, tens of thousands of young adults from every continent have come to Taize for a week to enable them to pray, to reflect on the sources of their faith, to look for a meaning for their life, and to prepare themselves to be creators of trust and reconciliation in the places where they live. Visitors often speak of the beauty of the worship and the ease with which all present take part.
Listen to the words. Relax and be drawn into deeper private prayer. Whilst you are silent, others will keep the prayer and praise going. We hope worship in the style of Taize at High Street similarly awakens in you ‘Heaven’s joy on earth’.